Abstract
In 1986, Educational Testing Service (ETS) added the Test of Written English (TWE), which requires the production of a 30-minute writing sample, to some administrations of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). The test was developed on the basis of two major research projects which investigated the role of writing in the academic community and the type of writing tests that faculty felt their students should be able to produce (Bridgeman and Carlson, 1983; Carlson et al., 1985). ETS appointed a committee of outside consultants, the TWE Core Reader Group, to develop topics for the exam and to determine whether or not a given writing topic should be approved for the exam. This article details the topic development process for the TWE, the work of the Core Reader group, and the procedures for reading and scoring the TWE.
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